Eastern Military District
| Eastern Military District Восточный военный округ | |
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 Emblem of the Eastern Military District | |
| Founded | October 21, 2010 |
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| Type | Military district |
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| Headquarters | Ulitsa Serysheva 15, Khabarovsk |
| Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
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| Current commander | Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov |
The Eastern Military District (Russian: Восточный военный округ) is a military district of Russia.
It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the Russian Far East region of the country. The Eastern Military District was created as part of the 2008 military reforms, and founded by Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010, to replace the Far East Military District with the addition of the Transbaikal section of the Siberian Military District.[1] The district began operation on October 21, 2010, under the command of Admiral Konstantin Sidenko.
The Eastern Military District is the second largest military district in Russia by geographic size at 7,000,000 square kilometers (2,700,000 sq mi). The district contains 12 federal subjects of Russia: Amur Oblast, Buryatia, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha Republic, Sakhalin Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai.[1]
The Eastern Military District is headquartered in Khabarovsk, and its current district commander is Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov, who has held the position since November 2017.
Component units
This listing of formation and units is not complete. A Command, control, and communications (C3) brigade is synonymous with a headquarters brigade.
- 104th Cluj Headquarters Brigade (Khabarovsk)
- Honour Guard Company of the Khabarovsk Garrison (formed 14 December 1971 and is led by Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Zielinski)[2][3]
- 106th Communications Brigade (Territorial) (Dalnerechensk)
- 14th Independent Guards Baranovichi Red Banner Order of the Red Star Engineering Brigade (Vyatka, Khabarovsk Krai)
- 17th Independent Electronic Warfare Brigade (Khabarovsk)
- 7th Independent Red Banner Railway Brigade (Komsomolsk-on-Amur)
- 50th Independent Railway Brigade (Svobodny)
- 118th Independent Pontoon-Bridge Railway Battalion (Khabarovsk)
- 392nd Pacific Red Banner Order of Kutuzov District Training Center for Junior Specialists (Motor Rifle Troops) (Khabarovsk)
- 212th Guards Vienna Orders of Lenin and Kutuzov District Training Center for Junior Specialists (Tank Troops) (Chita)[4]
- 51st Training Detachment of the Pacific Fleet (Vladivostok)
- 7th Regional Training Center for NCOs (Knyaz-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Krai)
29th Army (Chita)
- 101st Khingan Headquarters Brigade (Chita)
- 36th Independent Guards Lozovskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (Borzya)[5]
- 200th Artillery Brigade (Gorny)[6]
- 140th Borisov Order of Kutuzov Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Domna, Zabaykalsky Krai)
5th Red Banner Army (Ussuriysk)
- 57th Motor Rifle Brigade (Bikin)
- 59th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (Sergeevka)
- 60th Motor Rifle Brigade (Sibirtsevo and Lipovtsy)
- 70th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Ussuriysk)
- 20th Guards Rocket Brigade (Spassk-Dalny)[7]
- 338th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade (Novosysoevka)
- 305th Artillery Brigade (Ussuriysk)
- 8th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Razdolnoye, Primorsky Krai)
- 80th C3 Brigade (Ussuriysk)
- 16th Independent NBC Defence Brigade (Lesozavodsk)
68th Army Corps (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)[8]
- 137th Independent Headquarters Battalion (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- 39th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (Khomutovo)
- 312th Independent Multiple-Launch Artillery Battery (Dachnoye)
- 676th Independent Engineer Battalion (Dachnoye)
- 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division (Goryachie Klyuchi, Sakhalin Oblast)
- 46th Machinegun Artillery Regiment (Lagunnoe)
- 49th Machinegun Artillery Regiment
- 38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Belogorsk-Ekaterinoslavka)
- 64th Motor Rifle Brigade (Khabarovsk)
- 69th Fortress Brigade in (Babstovo, Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
- 107th 'Mozyrskaya order of Lenin Red Banner' Rocket Brigade (Birobizhan)[9]
- 165th Artillery Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 71st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Srednebelaya, Amur Oblast)
- 54th C3 Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 37th Engineer Regiment (Berezovka, Amur Oblast)
- 135th Independent NBC Defence Battalion (Khabarovsk)
- 5th Independent Guards Tank Tatsinskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Brigade (Ulan Ude)
- 37th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Don Budapest Red Banner Order of the Red Star Brigade (Kyakhta)
- 103rd Rocket Brigade (Ulan-Ude)
- 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Jida)
- 75th C3 Brigade (Ulan Ude)
Air and Air Defence Forces
- 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
- Aviation of the Pacific Fleet
Russian Navy Forces
- Pacific Fleet
- Pacific Coast Flotilla
- Kamchatka Flotilla/Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces
- Other naval units, ships and submarines
- 155th Guards Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade
- 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment (Russia)
- 165th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade (to be raised in 2018)
List of Commanders of the Eastern Military District
- Admiral Konstantin Sidenko (October 2010 - October 2013)
- Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin (October 2013 - November 2017)
- Colonel-General Aleksandr Zhuravlyov (November 2017 – present)
References
- 1 2 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2010 года № 1144 «О военно-административном делении Российской Федерации» Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ http://www.bestmagazine.ru/issues/2014-05/rota-pochetnogo-karaula
- ↑ http://mbpolyakov.ru/index.php?docid=468474
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "49th Training Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ↑ "38th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
- ↑ Russian Soldier from the 200th Brigade Disclosed his Unit's Position in Syria, 7 March 2016, and Holm, 200th Artillery Brigade of High Power
- ↑ Holm, Michael. "20th Guards Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ↑ Mukhin, Oleg (3 February 2017). "20-я армия нашла командующего на Сахалине" [20th Army finds commander on Sakhalin]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
- ↑ "23rd Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
Further reading
- Galeotti, Mark (2017). The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-908-6. - page 31 has a district order of battle